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Balloon PostA balloon leaves Paris by night, carrying mail out of the city during the siege by Prussian forces, December 1870. Original publication: Illustrated London News
Balloon At MontmartreA captive balloon at Montmartre, Paris during the Franco-Prussian War, circa 1871. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Balloon Rides4th October 1863: French caricaturist, writer, portrait photographer, balloonist and showman Gaspard Felix Tournachon Nadar (1820 - 1910) flies his giant balloon, Le Geant
Commune Balloons1871: Balloons in the Place St Pierre during the Paris Commune rising of 1871. M. Nadar snr used to make ascents from this place as reconnaisance photographer during the siege of Paris
Nadars BalloonNadars giant air balloon over Paris, 1863. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Airship Ascends24th September 1852: The ascent of French engineer and inventor Henri Giffauds first steam airship. Collection of the Musee de l Aeromautique (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)